Key Skills

The Key Skills are:

  • Communication
  • Application of Number
  • IT
  • Improving Own Learning and Performance
  • Working with Others
  • Problem Solving

Communication, Application of Number and IT are known as the 'first three key skills'. Improving Own Learning and Performance, Working with Others and Problem Solving are known as the 'wider key skills'.

The other three components of the Core - Wales, Europe and the World, Work-related Education (WRE) and Personal and Social Education (PSE) - have been designed to give students the opportunity to develop these six key skills in a natural, contextualised way.

To gain both the first three Key Skills and the wider Key Skills the students must provide a portfolio of evidence for assessment.